Spacevidcast – Live events and daily-casts

Spacevidcast has covered a number of live events such as Shuttle and Soyuz launches, the Phoenix Mars landing, the launch of Jules Verne ATV, the GLAST Space Telescope, Chandrayaan-1, Shenzhou 7, the Kepler Mission as well as commercial satellite launches.

Spacevidcast has covered a number of live events such as Shuttle and Soyuz launches, the Phoenix Mars landing, the launch of Jules Verne ATV, the GLAST Space Telescope, Chandrayaan-1, Shenzhou 7, the Kepler Mission as well as commercial satellite launches. The website was one of many outlets to broadcast a live feed of the lunar impact by NASA's LCROSS spacecraft and participated in Guy Laliberté's ''Poetic Social Mission Event: Moving Stars and Earth for Water''. These events are usually summed up in short daily clips dedicated to one or two events.

Additionally, Spacevidcast streams NASA TV with an accompanying chat room through UStream live 24/7 with an HD video feed during launches and other significant events.

2008 Lunar Lander Challenge

The Spacevidcast team was the official event webcaster for the X Prize Foundation's 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. Spacevidcast streamed continuously from Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 24 and October 25. The hosts were on site to interview team leaders and VIP guests. The podcast was also the only media outlet to cover the ''Rocket Racing League at Spaceport America'' announcement by the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson.

ISDC 2009

Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2009 International Space Development Conference, an annual event hosted and organized by the National Space Society. As part of its coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the main presentations as well as an option for viewers to send questions via the chat room. The videos were also made available on demand. In addition to direct coverage of the conference, Spacevidcast also broadcast a regular weekly show from the ISDC 2009 setting and the hosts participated in a pannel discussion on May 29 entitled ''Space Media 2.0''.

SpaceUp San Diego (2010)

Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 SpaceUp San Diego unconference, the first major space BarCamp-like event hosted by the [http://sandiegospace.org/ San Diego Space Society]. As part of their coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the many of the presentations as well as much of the Ignite talks. The videos are now available on demand. The quality of these videos is low only because of a lack of internet connections at the conference and spotty cell phone coverage.

NewSpace 2010 (2010)

Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 Space Frontier Foundation NewSpace Conference, a yearly conference for NewSpace leaders to meet and organize the future of the NewSpace movement. Benjamin and Cariann provided live coverage of each of the talks during the weekend. The videos are now available on demand (some are EPIC subscriber-only).

SpaceUp D.C. (2010)

Spacevidcast is also the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 SpaceUp Washington D.C. unconference, the second space BarCamp-like event hosted by [http://evadot.com/ Evadot founder Michael Doornbos]. As part of their coverage, the hosts are providing live video webcasts of the many of the presentations and Ignite talks. The videos will be available on demand in the near future.


Adapted from the Wikipedia article Spacevidcast, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki








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